Browsing: Environment

Scorching Heat Dome Grips Eastern U.S., with No Relief in SightTens of millions of people are already under heat alerts, and the worst is yet to…

Wet wipe producers should be charged to remove their pollution from England’s waterways, the author of a government review into reforming the sector says.Sewage has been…

Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one…

Aliens are visiting our solar system.Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and asteroids born elsewhere in the galaxy that…

Two high-ranking officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were placed on administrative leave on Friday, fueling speculation that the Trump administration was retaliating against…

For a long time in climate politics, the question has been: What path do we need to be on to avert absolute catastrophe? And are we…

Keeping the classroom window closed is not the answer to reduce the amount of pollution coming into schools, a recent study has found.A project called SAMHE…

‘Arsenic Life’ Microbe Study Retracted after 15 Years of ControversyA controversial arsenic microbe study unveiled 15 years ago has been retracted. The study’s authors are crying…

Two people have been killed in a huge blaze in Cyprus, bringing the death toll from a series of wildfires on the eastern Mediterranean island and…

We Just Discovered the Sounds of Spacetime. Let’s Keep ListeningLess than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten…